Word: showrooms
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...carats, and a mound of butter carved into the shape of a lamb by an 80-year-old nun? A Scarlett O'Hara-style search for a movie heroine and screen tests for 75 antique automobiles? Five 40-ft. glass and steel panels removed from a New York showroom in order to put a $100,000 Rolls-Royce on display? Great Scott...
...might grumble at his beloved during a traffic jam or on the day that the insurance premium came due; he might actually feel a bit shamed when comparing notes with a sports-car fanatic. But he always ?or nearly always?remained loyal to that sleek machine in the showroom...
...took Natherlene Bolden, a Bronx Community College scholarship student, almost four months to find a temporary job answering a telephone in a carpet showroom for $2 an hour...
...time though it is, JGE sticks stubbornly to small-time style. Its "showroom" is a small, carton-crammed section of a warehouse in a sidestreet in Bayside, Queens. All sales are for cash. Except for the Rosenbergs, who sometimes help unload trucks, only part-time employees mind the store. They include moonlighting policemen, housewives and four or five high school basketball players from the Friends' Academy in Locust Valley, N.Y. Clerks make no effort to push a particular brand or persuade customers to buy a higher-priced item; they simply take orders. Yet JGE turns over $300,000 worth...
...approach. Each of the Bond series has been characterized by a certain flippancy of approach. Apparently no one ever felt the need for accuracy, or credibility. Consequently, we are expected to believe a chase sequence in which Moore merely maneuvers a cab through a meticulously placed set of cars, showroom new to boot, on an otherwise empty FDR drive. It could've been a Liberty Mutual auto insurance commercial...